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i think-my sen is that frankly theyould have a better chance of passing the bill deal, a big $4 illion deal that would significantly cut spending but also include some tax revenue increases. that's, i think... as tough as it would be far to pass the house, i think idea of just giving the president the authority but getting political points to store in return is not going to fly with the republicans in the house. the only way it passes in the house i believe is if there is a vast majority of democrats to go along with it and a slice of republicans. but, look, y heard the speaker last week say this whole situation is like a rubik's cube. any time you kind of dial up the spending cuts, you're going to start losing democrats. any time you di up anything portrayed as a tax increase, even if it's not increasing tax rates,obods talngbout that right now. anything that looks like it's increasing tax revenues at all you start losing republicans. >> rose: so is th idea of the president's desire far grand bargain and speaker boehner at one time hoping for a grand bargain, is that dead or does... t
i think-my sen is that frankly theyould have a better chance of passing the bill deal, a big $4 illion deal that would significantly cut spending but also include some tax revenue increases. that's, i think... as tough as it would be far to pass the house, i think idea of just giving the president the authority but getting political points to store in return is not going to fly with the republicans in the house. the only way it passes in the house i believe is if there is a vast majority of...
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it has been a big weak for her. the city council voted on the budget and comes after much negotiation betweethe mayor's how s and e city council. i'm very pleased to have christine quinn back at this table. weome. >> thank you. >> charlie: before we lk about open politics here, just tell me about this for you and your partner of 12 years. >> 10. >> charlie: 10 years. >> right. >> charlie: what does this mean. tell me the feeling what you too had when you realized you could get married in this state. >> we didn't really realize it until friday night and i was in my office in city hall working on the budget. we were on the phone and when we heard the senator, i was watching it on tv, at that moment, we realized it. and kim was we don't know, it can change. but we knew it. and it's a hard feeling to describe although a lot won't change. we lived together for nine years. a whole lot will change and you felt that. this was this amazing feeling of being a fuller part of your state. and really that stigma that being leftut
it has been a big weak for her. the city council voted on the budget and comes after much negotiation betweethe mayor's how s and e city council. i'm very pleased to have christine quinn back at this table. weome. >> thank you. >> charlie: before we lk about open politics here, just tell me about this for you and your partner of 12 years. >> 10. >> charlie: 10 years. >> right. >> charlie: what does this mean. tell me the feeling what you too had when you...
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how big? >> another problem. because athis point they had a sort of hand shake dealor something over a trillion dollars in discretionary cuts. democrats said well, when you go into appropriations and start making these cuts this is how much that has to go to defense. republicans said no, they have t agreed to that yet. it's a major stumbling block at this point. so while it was beginning to look like in the biden talks that there was consensus around certain things, and i think it's true in some of the non-health maatory like farm subsidies and federal worker pensis and trb i care i understand is on the table, they agreedhat the were rape targets. but the idea that they agreed on what to cut and how to cut it i think was oversold. >> hunt: again, what's the defense target if they could get a con seine us? >> well, obama has offered something like $300 billion over ten. or $400 over 12. but i don't think republicans have been willing to accept that so far. >> hunt: when we talk about crunch time now, julianna, we'
how big? >> another problem. because athis point they had a sort of hand shake dealor something over a trillion dollars in discretionary cuts. democrats said well, when you go into appropriations and start making these cuts this is how much that has to go to defense. republicans said no, they have t agreed to that yet. it's a major stumbling block at this point. so while it was beginning to look like in the biden talks that there was consensus around certain things, and i think it's true...
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and i think that is the big challenge right now. how do we basically develop a political platform and a mandate to do those four things. >> i would add a couple things. to what tom said which i basically agree with. but first there is a cultural element here. it's not just a problem in washington, it's a pblem in the culture. a nation where people have distrust of authority, don't trust government, unwilling to accept sacrice, feel very threatened, want pore government than they are willing to pay for, and so there has to be a gigantic education campaign to go under that. and then the second thing i would add, and tom talked about a hybrid politics, i uld say we'vead it. and we just have to rediscover it. and i go back perpeally to my hero alex aner hamilton who created this hrid politics it was not -- he got us out of the big government versus small government debat he stood for lited b energetic government to enhance social mobility. so people in the hamiltonian practise decision which include the wig party and the lincoln an repu
and i think that is the big challenge right now. how do we basically develop a political platform and a mandate to do those four things. >> i would add a couple things. to what tom said which i basically agree with. but first there is a cultural element here. it's not just a problem in washington, it's a pblem in the culture. a nation where people have distrust of authority, don't trust government, unwilling to accept sacrice, feel very threatened, want pore government than they are...
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about two weeks ago when he doubled down and said you know what, let's do the big deal. let's do the $4 trillion plan. he sort of-- sort of came late to the game. he kind of endorsed the bowles simpson plan which he stl has never fully endorsed but the goals of it, he did endorse in the last couple of weeks so they didn't quite expect that, the republicans in that sense and then that's when they started to retreat from retreat on could up history of '95, think mitc certainly looks at that is bill clinton want to be a looks at 95 i more with was good republicans then. been good, possibly could for house the day he votes to get >> rose: boehner at that to newt >> tt's right. he was in leadership at the think he sees know, the figured it out won. republicans won. is the guy is ying to here and i different set. he was of a different mindset. >> hans, do you agree with this is the political take plac 2012, that presidentas sense of the resignation. >> well, it's not all resignation implies sort of and don't way to alter forward. i think what you have seen in the last weeks, t
about two weeks ago when he doubled down and said you know what, let's do the big deal. let's do the $4 trillion plan. he sort of-- sort of came late to the game. he kind of endorsed the bowles simpson plan which he stl has never fully endorsed but the goals of it, he did endorse in the last couple of weeks so they didn't quite expect that, the republicans in that sense and then that's when they started to retreat from retreat on could up history of '95, think mitc certainly looks at that is...
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but the other really big issue, of course, is that the u.k. has greece and ireland sitting on its doorsteps and that caused quite a psychological shock t just for politicians but voters too. >> rose: bill, wt dow make of the fact that eight out of 93 failed. >> and there are small banks in greece and spain. but you know, what it reflects, really, is the lack of capitol within your. >>o land itself or at lea a lack of capital balance. euroland actually has less debt to gdp than the united states. the problem is t balance. it's the south versus the north. and it's like comparing it to a rowboat with too many passengers on one side or the other. and it tips. what's required really is some type of rebalancing, some type of effort from a central bank le the ecb or some type of fiscal policy from what is known as the esff to basically get funds from one untry to the other. and of course the political ramifications and problems in doing that have been the problem to this day. >> the problems in euroland as john says may have actually helped the u.s.
but the other really big issue, of course, is that the u.k. has greece and ireland sitting on its doorsteps and that caused quite a psychological shock t just for politicians but voters too. >> rose: bill, wt dow make of the fact that eight out of 93 failed. >> and there are small banks in greece and spain. but you know, what it reflects, really, is the lack of capitol within your. >>o land itself or at lea a lack of capital balance. euroland actually has less debt to gdp than...